Court staff sent wrong jury home

  Bungling Old Bailey court staff mistakenly discharged the wrong jury and sent them home in the middle of a trial. The jury were waiting upstairs while legal argument took place during a case involving an allegation of causing death by careless driving. Meanwhile it had been decided to discharge a second jury from a different case – but staff mixed them up in an embarrassing blunder. Fortunately the first jury would have been discharged anyway because of a problem…